Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

In the 1830s the abolitionist movement in the United States refashioned itself under new leadership which was determined to bring slavery to an imm...

For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, i...

Human trafficking has been at the forefront of policies and campaigns since the passing of the United Nations' Palermo Protocol in 2000. However, s...

An economic history of the Burton family of Norfolk, and their enslaved workers on the Chiswick sugar estate. While the Atlantic plantation econom...

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War Enslaved people lived in a world ...

How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkersThough the United States has been heral...

For more than four centuries Britons have been dominating and colonising other peoples and territories. Britains Empires tells that story without f...

International migration and migrants have long been among the most debated topics in Europe and around the globe. How do immigrant policies differ ...

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteent...

Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, Repertoires of Slavery prises open the conflicting i...

This compelling, richly illustrated work recounts the African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). Heiress to a huge...

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth centu...

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective storyIn December of 1850, a fac...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina.In 1708, the governor of South Carolina...

The historical study shows that between the end of the 18th and the middle of the 19th century, German activists increasingly networked with abolit...

Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sough...

Kenneth S. Sacks explores how America's first public intellectual, determined to live self-reliantly, wrestled with his personal philosophy and eve...

'A gripping, galloping narrative that challenges perceptions to the very last page', Marie Claire 'David Diop has opened up a new way of thinking ...

Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britains economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, w...

For more than four centuries Britons have been dominating and colonising other peoples and territories. Britains Empires tells that story without f...

Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost ...

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in ...

Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to A...

Explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery As winter turned to spring in the year 169...